Introduction to Africana Studies: Black Radical Thought and Praxis
AFAM 101
Fall 2020
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This course will introduce students to the intellectual history and political economy of Africa and the African diaspora. It will take up important historical issues and questions that continue to animate, even haunt the modern world: race, race relations, and anti-black racism; the universality of whiteness and white supremacy; the fungibility of the black body; the vulnerability and precarity of black life; and the complex and "unthinkable" histories and afterlives of chattel slavery, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and the Middle Passage. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AFAM |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AFAM-MN)(AFAM)(CBST-MN)(CSCT) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Major readings:
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, SILENCING THE PAST
W. E. B. Du Bois, BLACK RECONSTRUCTION
C. L. R. James, THE BLACK JACOBINS
Frantz Fanon, THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH
Saidiya Hartman, LOSE YOUR MOTHER
Angela Davis, LECTURES ON LIBERATION
W. E. B. Du Bois, THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, HOW WE GET FREE
Hortense Spillers, MAMA'S BABY, PAPA'S MAYBE
Sylvia Wynter, ON HOW WE MISTOOK THE MAP FOR THE TERRITORY
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Examinations and Assignments:
Four in-class examinations and one justificatory essay (3,000 words). |
| Instructor(s): Bertholf,Garry Times: ..T.R.. 11:10AM-12:30PM; Location: ONLINE; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 50 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 20 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 5 | SO: 20 | FR: 20 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 3 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 3 |
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